Mountains of California

Directions:  Answer the following questions by visiting the website links related to each question.  
                       Write your answers on the page given to you.
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1.  What is the name of the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States?

2.  Name the 5 tallest mountains in the Sierra Nevada.  What is each mountain's elevation (height) in feet?

Use the following link to answer #1 and #2:
http://www.sierranevadaphotos.com/geography/high_peaks.asp

3.  How much snow fell at Echo Summit on January 4, 1982?

Use the following link to answer #3:
http://www.sierranevadaphotos.com/geography/snow_depth.asp

4.  What event in 1848 brought hundreds of thousands of people to California and the Sierra Nevada foothills?

5.  Using the map, name at least 4 major gold rush cities.

Use the following link to answer #4 and #5:
http://www.sierranevadaphotos.com/geography/gold_country.asp

6.  What does "Sierra Nevada" mean in Spanish?

Use the following link to answer #6:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_(US)#History_of_the_Name

7.  What is the name of the following flowers?  Click each flower to find out:

Done?  Go on a hike at Rock Creek!

http://www.rockcreeklake.com/virtual/llvalley/1.htm